My Pursuit For A Career

My interest in medicine first stemmed from my freshman Biology class and my Nutrition class. I was intrigued by our studies of cells, genetics, and disease. Both courses incited a sense of awe and curiosity within me. Dissecting a frog, was the stepping-stone for my interest in medicine. Seeing the frog's heart made me wonder how the human heart worked. My research into the human heart inspired me to learn more about the medical field. I sought out volunteer opportunities that would give me insight into a doctor’s typical day. During my volunteer experience, I learned that as a doctor you experience many obstacles, including patient compliance and insurance approval issues. In my journey to pursue medicine, I learned that becoming a doctor means more than helping people, it means being the team leader, being compassionate, and most importantly being committed to the patient’s well being.

The morning of October 8th, 2005 shook my world - both literally and figuratively. A major earthquake devastated the entire region of Northern Pakistan and changed my life forever. Little did I know, when I was woken up by the sound of shattering glass and falling trees, that the scale of destruction would be so catastrophic. As the death toll continued to rise, I changed my inertia and grief into action and altruism. I decided to volunteer at one of the largest hospitals in my city. While watching doctors working tirelessly to save lives, my passion for becoming a doctor grew stronger. The satisfaction and sense of fulfillment I achieved after easing the patient's pain and making them feel better was priceless. This indeed was a defining moment in my life and gave it new direction and purpose. With a new found vigour and determination I entered medical school the same year.

When challenged as to why I would want to pursue a career in medicine, my response includes an acknowledgement of the realities of an intensely stressful and academically rigorous profession, but also a recognition of the rewards that come with having the ability to make a real difference to peoples’ lives. We depend on medicine in our weakest times and seek strength in those who dedicate themselves to research, prevention and treatment and I believe I have both the compassion and motivation to make a positive contribution.

The medical field is a career path that brings about many options and opportunities of great value. The noble idea of being a doctor tends to cloud the diligent studying and precise training that is actually required for this career. I have wanted to become a doctor since a very young age, and now that the opportunity is here for the taking, I have fully researched what it takes to succeed in this profession and various specialties of the practice. The road to a medical degree is one filled with thousands of notes, years of schooling, and many stressful nights, but the reward is one incomparable to any other. Saving people’s lives on a day-to-day basis has been one of my dreams for as long as I can remember, so the rigorous curriculum

With the start of medical school, studying basic sciences opened a door to the world enriched with years and years of research. With each passing semester, I gained more knowledge about the biochemical, physiological and anatomical aspects of medicine. The more knowledge I acquired, the more eager I became to apply what I had learnt into clinical practice. Those two years formed the foundation

I decided to pursue medicine while I was attending high school in Kolkata, India and fell in love with biology. I enjoyed engaging with people and developing meaningful relationships. I was looking for a path that would provide me with the skills to help others, both in my home country India and abroad. I felt that medicine can offer me an enriched career with the perfect balance of scientific challenge, intellectual stimulation and personal collection. Surrounded by the Himalayas in West Bengal, India, medical school further inspired my intellectual curiosity and cemented my professional identity.

My initial passion for science is where my ambition began but immediately after beginning practical experience, I became inundated with intrigue for medicine. The prospect of a career that will push my learning capabilities to the limit while keeping up with the endless advances that often forefronts modern medicine in the news, fascinates me. From the respected staff to the thankful patients, the versatility and reward of medicine as a subject has become the reason that compels me to pursue this vocational course where the aim is primarily to help those in need.

I became captivated by the opportunity to apply my knowledge of the biological and chemical sciences in a way that one day may save a life. Though my interest stems from my experiences, my passion to pursue this field lies elsewhere. Growing up in a family of low socioeconomic status in an area with few sources of acceptable health care, I saw my parents struggle as they aged to provide my siblings and I with a proper education. There were times they would ignore their own illness in order to save funds for an emergency for us. Observing this, I knew that no matter how difficult of a path I picked, regardless if it was pharmaceutical sciences or the medical field, my parents had concurred greater difficulties. Growing under such conditions, I began to realize the disparities in quality of treatments my parents received compared to those who of a higher socioeconomic status. This motivated me to pursue a career where I would be given the chance to offer care to individuals through unbiased views. Of course, there are a plethora of careers that can fulfill this but medicine has presented itself as very unique to me. It promises a lifestyle devoted to empathetic patient care, direct patient interaction, and a boundless opportunity to learn and experience something new. As the end of my undergraduate experience is forthcoming, I look forward to taking on the next phase of my life, endeavoring to join the ranks of tomorrow’s

As one embarks on the path to becoming a physician, we face many challenges along the way. For some of us, we may become exposed to the realities of medicine through shadowing and volunteering and then realizing we lack interest in dealing with patients or spending hours upon hours in a hospital. Some may come to discover that they do not possess the time and patience to go through

My mother, who went to school to become a Medical Laboratory Technician, introduced me to the many fields of medicine. At night I would lay in bed and research on my now-obsolete cell phone, “What is a pathologist?” and “How to become an epidemiologist?”. I became fascinated by the notion that medicine was able to help those struggling with illness and that science sought to put the universe into to order

According to the 16 Personality test, my personality type is the defender. I possess the feeling trait and have excellent analytical skills. I have well-developed people skills and strong social relationships. Even though I’m the judging type, I am also receptive to change and new ideas. According to my Career Cruising results, I should become some type of counselor or therapist. Surprisingly, my suggested careers were pretty accurate to what I want to pursue. However, Career Cruising did not hint at any careers in criminal justice or forensic science as it has in previous years. For my Day-on-the-Job, I job shadowed Officer Brian Farlin and Detective Michael Neering to get a sense of working with crime since that has always interested me.

Now, I realize that choosing my profession is not about the fame. Instead, I should be considered with changing lives not just saving them. I resolve to go back to Jamaica, after finishing my education, and establishing medical clinics in the rural countryside I now call home. When ambulances rush down to the street and their flashing lights illuminate the starry night, I want to be available to change a person’s life. I would like to expand my medical training from just the AP Biology and Anatomy classes and the planned medical mission trips, to the University of

My journey began with an affinity and curiosity towards science and an eagerness to help people. I pursued to become a doctor by completing medical school in South India. Working as a primary care physician in a rural health care center where medical resources was scarce made me realise the importance of preventative health care and health education. I found that primary health care was more useful in helping a larger group of people. And by working with the people in the community by teaching preventive measures against communicable and non communicable diseases would help decrease suffering from those diseases in the long run.

Let me first start of by saying I have been surrounded by the prospect of medicine and science since i was a little kid. There were days where my mom took me into her office and let me observe her patients as well as showing me how to use a stethoscope or as i used to call it the “doctor rope”. There were days where kids my age usually were spelling hard words like ambidextrous,playground,yesterday, and etc, while on the other hand i was spelling the names of medical drugs like tylenol,prilosec, and vicodin. There were my frequent summer trips to india where i noticed both my grandparents helping rural patients with their struggles and pain. As i grew older i realized that no matter how different health care is in different parts of the world only two things remain constant no matter

During my second week as an English teacher in Chennai, India, one student asked me: "Why do you come to teach us?" This seemingly simple question, posed by a second-grader at a school for the underprivileged, gave me pause. It proved to be impossible for me to explain volunteer work to a boy born into poverty. I knew that any response I could have given would not begin to address the deeper subtext of his question. Although I was born in the U.S., I lived in India for intermittent periods of time, and I have always been aware of the striking disparity between the developing nation and that of my own. Growing up between the two countries has instilled in me a sense of duty to give back, and as a volunteer teacher, it was gratifying to play a small role in those students’ education. However, the lessons I taught could not compare to the deep introspection that one question had incited in me. As I continue to think about my broader responsibility and what I could do to make a meaningful impact for people in need, my experiences have repeatedly demonstrated that there is no career more fitting for me than that of a physician.